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Re: High Voltage Filters

Hi Bill,
          Its how neons should always be wired, although the 3rd prong may
well have been connected to the same ground anyway.

Regards
Nick Field

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Subject: RE: High Voltage Filters


> Original Poster: "William Parn" <parn-at-fgm-dot-com>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tesla List [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:36 PM
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: High Voltage Filters
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> > Original Poster: "Adam" <adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net>
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> > > Original Poster: "William Parn" <parn-at-fgm-dot-com>
> > >
> > > I believe in a center tapped NST that the house
> > > ground is already connected to the case.  At least
> > > that is how my center tapped FranceFormer is setup.
> > > You can check that with a quick ohm meter test.
> >
> > On the "outdoor non-weatherproof" type of neon transformer that most of
us
> > are using, there are two connections to the primary coil on a ceramic
> > bushing, insulated from the casing.  There is then usually a separate
1/4"
> > screw terminal welded directly to the transformer housing, which serves
as
> > the ground connection to midpoint of the secondary, and the transformer
> > core.  This terminal should be connected to your heavy RF ground.
> >
> > If you have smaller NSTs from a beer sign or similar, and they have
3-wire
> > cords and 3-prong plugs, you should remove the 3rd ground wire
completely
> > and replace it with a 2-wire cord and 2-prong plug. Then, you can use
the
> > casing screws to get a good case connection to a proper tesla-approved
> > ground (or counterpoise on a small system).
> >
> > -Adam
> > adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net
> >
> >
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> Greets Adam And All,
>
> Adam this sounds like a really good idea to me.  Do others
> have and comments on this setup.  It seems to me that this
> would really help to keep the house ground from floating
> around.  I have an outdoor Allanson on it's way now,
> 15kv-at-60ma.  Quite a bit more power then the 9kv-at-30ma
> I am currently running with so I know I need to do
> more engineering.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Bill Parn
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